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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

Remains of Little Eaton Gangway coal wagon, c 1798

1793-1803

Half-penny coin

1806

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Half-penny coin

1799

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Weights and measures

1805

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Divers Projets

1798

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Engraving of "J. D'Alembert"

1795-1805

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1799

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Boring machine, Yard No. 642

1804-1807

Marine barometer by R.B. Bate

mid-1800s

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Richard Arkwright

1790

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

The Costume of Great Britain

1805

Chronometer with case and accessories

circa 1800